"Hands across the Sea" was an exhibit of more than 175 medallic sculptures in bronze, brass, copper, and nickel-silver by award winning artists from the American Medallic Sculpture Association and The Museum of Medallic Art in Wroclaw, Poland.
Medallic sculptures are handheld pieces of art, which the Italians call "poetry in a circle".
While the coins we use every day are sculptures struck in metal by the millions, the pieces in this exhibit were hand produced in extremely limited numbers or, in some cases, as one-of-a-kind works of art.
Of the medallic sculptures on exhibit, 105 were created by 40 artists from Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, and the United States who were selected to have their work included in the show. The remaining pieces are the work of 34 artists selected by the Museum of Medallic Art in Wroclaw, Poland.
The exhibit offered a wide variety of styles and forms, sometimes establishing new frontiers in the medium of medallic sculpture, an art form that traces its origins back nearly 3,000 years to the first coin.
The "Hands across the Sea" exhibit was on display at the ANA Money Museum until January 31, 2002. The exhibit travelled to Pennsylvania State University and later to the Museum of Medallic Art in Wroclaw, Poland.
The Museum of Medallic Art was established more than 40 years ago and houses a collection of Polish medallic art that comprises more than 50,000 miniature sculptures.
Curator Zdzislaw Olszanowski notes that in selecting the pieces for this exhibit, the Museum tried to choose the works that are most significant in Polish medallic art.
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500th Anniversary of the Discovery of America
Part of this exhibition included a collection of Polish medals issued for the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of America. This entire collection is available now for the sum of $3,000. According to Mr. Zdzislaw Olszanowski, Director of the The Museum of Art Medals of Wroclaw, the collection must be sold as a set. There are 15 medals created by different artists. Each medal is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity.
If anyone is interested in purchasing this set please contact: Agnieska Olszanowski-Cywinska at: jcywinski@ameritech.net
The complete set is pictured in the catalog of "Hands across the Sea."
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Antoni Kostrzewa, The 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of America (1992) |
Schedule of the exhibition:
American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
Opening Reception: October 20, 2001
October 20, 2001 - January 31, 2002
HUB-Robeson Galleries, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Opening Reception: April 7, 2002
March 12 - April 30, 2002
Municipal Museum of the City of Wroclaw
Dates to be announced
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